So, was it worth $129?

[John01021988]

I paid $199 for the family pack--since Apple treats me like an honest person with no 40 digit codes and activation idiocy, I treat Apple with similar respect by paying for the family pack. (And yes, I know there is no difference. It's an honor thing.)

Was it worth it?

Absolutely.

The speed.
The dozen or so killer features.
The thousands of little enhancements.

It's a great update. Well worth the money.

Yeah I know, by some reason, Apple makes you think "Well, come on, it's Apple. I am not doing that piracy crap. Everything I pay for it's worth my money" and Microsoft is like a synonym for "Come on, hack my serial and get a free copy, I am an useless OS"

Ill be buying Leopard soon 😀

 

[michaelsviews]

Yeah I know, by some reason, Apple makes you think "Well, come on, it's Apple. I am not doing that piracy crap. Everything I pay for it's worth my money" and Microsoft is like a synonym for "Come on, hack my serial and get a free copy, I am an useless OS"

Ill be buying Leopard soon 😀

Know what you mean by the hack crap, even though the guy who got me hooked on Apple over a year ago, is running his 5 or 6 machines with hacked or copied versions of the new OS that he got on the internet.

For the life of me I still to this day cannot figure out where M$ can sit there and justify there overpriced OS, and now there's talk of them buying into BlackBerry.

OT Question: MS Office for Mac , what is the alternative to making loud mouth Balmer and gates rich, but still has the functionality and more of word, excel, powerpoint? Or am I stuck having to pay for the upgrade if I want the compatibility

Heading to Apple to get my Leopard

 

[edcrosay]

Definitely worth it. I can see a noticeable difference with the graphics, everything is snappier and the improvements to Mail, Safari alone are worth the small cost. If you were an unfortunate Windows user think how much it would cost you to get Vista.

Bern,
I was totally fooled by your avatar. I feel like an idiot right now.

 

[ortuno2k]

I did an in-place-upgrade on top of Tiger, and it feels fast, very fast. The menus, Mail, Safari is snappier 😉, apps are fast too - hasn't locked on me so far, been running it since yesterday afternoon.
So far, I'm pleased. I have yet to use the new features, since I haven't tried Time Machine or Spaces.
I think it was worth it.

 

[72930]

I've spotted a number of Leopard features that weren't mentioned in Apple's "300 feature" list.

Care to share for those of us still waiting?

 

[keirmeister]

I have 3 drives connected to an AEBS and I have no issues with any of them.

Is there anything you did special? I get frequent issues trying to get the AEBS to show up in the sidebar in Finder. When it does, and I connect to the 4 drives, everything looks okay for a while. Then something happens, the drives hang, I can unmount anything... If this could be resolved, I can put up with everything else.

 

[ortuno2k]

I'm starting to do a bug list, of things I find. Does anyone know where or how I can report these to Apple?

Try this and tell me if it happens to you:

When moving icons on the dock from one position to another, the animation does not happen right away. After moving the icon back and forth a few times (without dropping it), the other icons start moving aside, just like it happened in Tiger.

 

[/dev/toaster]

I think its totally worth $129. Timemachine alone covers most of the cost. Originally, I would have said all of the costs ... but since they (for unknown reasons) removed all the network support for Timemachine at last minute, it lowers its value a lot.

Compared to what you get from XP -> Vista for what $300 ... Leopard is *VERY* *VERY* worth it.

 

[green86]

Its totally not worth it. If I can't get it working to what I consider acceptable I want to look into bringing it back. I got a new mac in my mac, for sure. A brand new very slow mac 🙄

 

[mashinhead]

i think this question was asked too soon, you should have asked about a week from now. although i did answer and it was no. Don't get me wrong i think it's great. but i don't think it's worth $129. I think this at best is $70 upgrade.

 

[splashtech]

Try this and tell me if it happens to you:

When moving icons on the dock from one position to another, the animation does not happen right away. After moving the icon back and forth a few times (without dropping it), the other icons start moving aside, just like it happened in Tiger.

Not exactly. (In shelf mode...) the icons will not move aside if you just grab an icon and move it left/right. You have to grab said icon and move it making sure the mouse cursor is above the shelf part of the dock (lower half of the icon area) not the corresponding "space" above the shelf in which the icons sit.

I hope that made sense. 🙂

 

[vansouza]

64bit

Still on Tiger at the mo...
Just wondering what ppl think about leopard? 😛

Overhyped? 😀

To me, it seems like most of the stuff is just eye candy - 3d dock, better UI and stuff

Only time machine is the only real functional new feature.

You realize it is a 64 bit OS if you have a 64 bit CPU, right? That and Leopards speed make it well worth the $199 I paid for the family pack.

 

[riverfreak]

Its totally not worth it. If I can't get it working to what I consider acceptable I want to look into bringing it back. I got a new mac in my mac, for sure. A brand new very slow mac 🙄

That's so weird. I installed on an old Aluminum G4 PowerBook and Leopard absolutely rips. It's dramatically faster, not just slightly faster.

Spaces alone is worth the upgrade price. The overview appears instantly (thank god for virtual desktop support - and the best implementation I've ever seen).

Time Machine seems to work well. Again, it seems to be the best implementation to date of a backup solution.

The new finder is great. Coverflow cool but maybe not so useful. QuickLook is really nice.

iCal improvements. Mail improvements. Everywhere you look, thinks have been tweaked. It's really, really awesome.

$129? Absolutlely worth it.

 

[riverfreak]

$129? Absolutlely worth it.

Scratch that. It's not possible to change the desktop pictures of individual spaces.

SHAME ON YOU, APPLE! How could your engineers overlook such an obvious UI mistake? Are they stupid? I'm switching back to my Vic 20.

 

[Doctor Q]

Care to share for those of us still waiting?

MacRumors and other sites have been noting new features. See the Mac OS X Leopard Launch Events story for some of them, and the Leopard Tips and Hints thread for more.

 

[farqueue]

If you have a MacBook with the GMA950 video chipset, I'd wait for the first software update before upgrading to Leopard. I just installed 10.5 on my MacBook, and the animation effects (e.g., Expose, Genie, Spaces, Stacks, Dashboard) are slow/jerky. I'm going to try a clean install tomorrow, but I doubt that's the issue. If that doesn't work, I'm going back to Tiger.

Be patient. There are a lot of strange little glitches/bugs in Leopard right now. 10.5.1 will be a lot more polished.

Exactly. That was what i heard too. Based on your sig stats, it will def be laggin on my mb

Didn't Panther have 129 features for $129? So this time we got 300 features for $129. Clearly a much bigger bargain. 🙂

(I won't mention that most of the 300 features affect only a minority of users. Then again, I've spotted a number of Leopard features that weren't mentioned in Apple's "300 feature" list.)

But don't forget apple adding a new font is also considered a new feature?

 

[flopticalcube]

Exactly. That was what i heard too. Based on your sig stats, it will def be laggin on my mb



But don't forget apple adding a new font is also considered a new feature?

If you do an erase and install and clean up your widgets and do the 2D dock trick, the choppyness and stuttering go away. At least that's what I'va found on my MB. Spaces actually helps because I only end up with a few windows in each space so expose is fine now, fast even!

 

[tyr2]

The first time Time Machine saves me from accidentally deleting the wrong thing it'll be worth every penny. In the mean time it's worth it knowing I don't have to worry about it.

 

[jsfpa]

Try and get a "full" version of Vista for that price!